Dick Franson has been on the Minnesota ballot 25 times, winning only his 1962 election to the Minneapolis City Council. He proudly says no one in the state, even names like Walter Mondale and Harold Stassen, come near equaling him. So, he said the other day, that makes him the godfather of Minnesota politics. This… Read More

Former congressman and 2006 U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kennedy has opened his own business. And beginning in late August he plans what he calls an around-the-world tour in 21 days, with speaking engagements at most of his stops. Kennedy opened Chartwell Strategic Advisors in his hometown of Watertown, Minn. In a letter to potential clients,… Read More

The Minnesota Independence Party is trying to distance itself from one of its members who is running for governor and fought with his ex-wife last year. Rob Hahn said he made a mistake when he threatened his ex-wife. That was not enough for party Chairman Jack Uldrich, who felt it necessary to remind Minnesotans that… Read More

Four remaining debates and forums could decide the winner of the Aug. 10 Democratic-Farmer-Laborite governor primary election contest. A 90-minute debate Friday night in Mankato, sponsored by Debate Minnesota, is the next meeting of Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Matt Entenza and Mark Dayton. Next up will be Sunday, when the Twin Cities’ KSTP-TV and the League of Women… Read More

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Don Davis

Davis has covered Minnesota politics and government for Forum Communications Company/Forum News Service since 2001. He is an Iowa native who was a reporter and editor at newspapers there, leaving the state to edit newspapers in Illinois, Oklahoma and Wyoming before becoming a full-time political reporter in North Dakota. Now, newspapers across Minnesota print his stories.